Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...This," said he, "is the toughest and biggest domestic problem confronting America today . . . Beating Secretary Benson around the head or damning the Democratic Congress will not help the farmer." In his specific proposals he then: ¶ Blamed the "majority" in Congress for blocking Administration efforts to modernize farm programs. ¶ Acknowledged that the Government helped get the farmer into trouble, should share the cost for getting him out.¶ Hinted that the parity price program is obsolete-"at its best it treats the symptoms and not the cause"-but postponed discussion of the problem of parity "since...
...dispatch arrives from Her Majesty's representative in Gaillardia, bearing the stunning news that three members of a visiting Russian Cossack dance team have been observed kicking out of step, and consequently must be spies. But where is Gaillardia? No one has ever heard of the place. The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence. C-B (played expertly by gap-toothed Terry-Thomas) discovers the file on Gaillardia among the rats in the archives: it is an island which, being of no value, was granted independence 40 years...
...near future of medicine and surgery, probably no problem is more fundamental than the rejection reaction. By understanding it, doctors may find answers to the riddle of cancer and a host of other ills. A prime example is the kidney inflammation that almost killed John Riteris. There is good reason to suspect, says Dr. Merrill, that his nephritis was the result of an "autoimmune reaction," in which some of the body's cells turn against its own tissues to destroy them. The same may be true of certain thyroid diseases...
When British Composer Benjamin Britten decided last October to write an opera on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, he faced a prickly problem: how to remain faithful to the original and yet cut the play by roughly one half. Last week, at England's Aldeburgh Festival, Britten's eagerly awaited Dream was greeted with salvos of critical applause. The composer, with the aid of Singer-Librettist Peter Pears, had solved his problem so brilliantly, reported a TIME correspondent, that "it becomes hard to imagine hearing the words again merely spoken without feeling a sense...
...Sayen fought back, accused FAA inspectors of endangering lives through "petty, ridiculous harassment of flight crews." He even tried to have FAA funds earmarked for inspector training shifted to other uses. Says he: "It is a foolish waste of public money. Pete Quesada just lacks understanding of the overall problem-and that makes him dangerous...